[Blue Dolphin Labrador Expedition Reel 3--Bill and Tad Stahl Films] Reel 28

Date1949

Can DescriptionsLabrador Redo- try and get more of frame

Donor-supplied NotesLabrador – Reel # 2 Summer 1949 Reel #3 Nain – eskimos receiving provisions from the mail steamer – eskimos very friendly and well behaved people, dress as Europeans or Americans in the summer. Nain branch of the Moravian Mission Church, the organization chiefly responsible for helping the eskimos to a […] better life. Husky pups frolic in the summer sun, but are really at home in the snow. Heading northward from Nain through Mugford Tickle in the Kaumajet Mountains – a very spectacular voyage. Sheer drop of some 3000’ to the water and over 1000’ of water under the vessel, table mountain. The Bishop’s Mitre – familiar seamark topped by pockets of snow still evident in August. Eskimo sod hut in the northern settlement of Hebron village. This type of dwelling is quite common in the winter, usually replaced by the tent in the summer. Northward up Hebron fjord – a representative example of the glacier fjords of Labrador. There is no timber in this area, and the eskimos must travel more than fifty miles for firewood. The head of Hebron fjord, our farthest north, and commemorated by the traditional cairn of rocks containing an account of the voyage carefully enclosed in a Heintz catchup bottle. Suitable photographs were taken with[…] the flags of various organizations involved. Dominion of Canada Arctic Institute Explorer’s Club United States Now southward bound we discover that the Bishop’s Mitre has been mantled with snow by a recent blizzard Bound for Cornerbrook we encounter heavy weather – fog, rain and a good sea running. Lunch on board is strictly a hand-to-mouth operation on a day like this. One of the crew members feels better after losing his over the side, but most of the ship’s company enjoys a good blow. Storm trysail is rigged and the sea abates as the wind drop and we near the Newfoundland coast. At Cornerbrook we pick up Elmer Harp and Tony Morse who is very proud of his long hair – the result of several months without a haircut. The Cornerbrook pulp mills, largest in the world. Proceeding down the Humber River we meet a pulp steamer. Nick Dean poses for the camera in his celipak – the eskimos parka. On a beautiful day early in September we say farewell to the north and point our bow homeward for Boothbay Harbor. At Boothbay, where we await customs officials to clear the vessel. Bill Danforth, a friend of the skipper brings them aboard. We approach the dockside where anxious parents have been waiting all morning. Mine are somewhat startled by 2 month’d growth of beard. Lastly, the inevitable portrait of the beard.